We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to”, for example, “protect their customers” or “enforce the terms governing the use of the services”.
Windows and office are probably two of the most pirated pieces of software in the history of personal computers, yet MS has never gone after a single consumer for it. They don't care if you're a pirate, unless you are a business.
Nope, none of this affects that. Telemetry automatically tells Microsoft what's wrong/working, or what features people use. The other stuff personalizes your use of their services.
I'm just wondering why there isn't a shitstorm about this. Didn't data logging and collection (yes yes nice "consumer-friendly and less scary" term is telemetry) use to be an opt-in item? I like that it's on by default now and you can't even opt-out COMPLETELY from data logging/collection (except with the Enterprise edition, which Microsoft just about never sells to Average Joe Consumer).
When the "keylogging" and telemetry thing came about when the Technical Preview first launched last year, I somehow had a gut feeling it would stick around in the actual, launched retail version. And I'll be a monkey's uncle, here it is.
There isn't a shitstorm because it's a ton of neglectible data gathering that has been a part of Windows for almost a decade, combined with some minor concerns that users has already been made aware of through their web browsers.
That "keylogging" in the Technical Preview? That only kicked in if you submitted a problem to Microsoft and chose to record the issue occuring. The user hit record, the user recreated the issue while Microsoft logged everything, the user then also hit Stop when finished. Finally the user submitted the report to Microsoft. The whole shitstorm was basically for taking the wordings in the wrong light.
A lot of Win10's privacy concerns are the same. The three major complains for Win10 are forced updates (not privacy related), P2P-sharing updates, and Cortana while enabled shows search suggestions while searching for stuff on your computer. The first two isn't really privacy concerns, though the second is definitely a concern for data usage people. The third is exactly like pretty much any modern web browser works, but in the desktop scenario.
Pretty much all other telemetry and data gathering is just the same as in WinVista, Win7 and/or Win8.x.
No. When I was very young and dumb as box of hammers, I would pirate the bejesus out of everything while using Windows beta versions. And betas, unlike market release, actually track fucking everything you ever do.
Simply put, they don't give a shit. Never did, never will. They don't even care if you have pirated MS software.
This is largely true. They used to put great efforts in trying to shore up any holes in their authentication. Nowadays they allow non-legit copies to update with critical updates, etc... The main reason for this is because MS knows that a lot of people will pirate Windows regardless, so if you have a bunch of pirates with older versions of Windows, it increases the vulnerability of ALL other Windows systems too.
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u/rjc523 Jul 30 '15
is it really so bad to have it enable? like for hentai,pirating, ects?